This SandWiki is a bit like a virtual Museum of Sands, in which you will find scientific compilations and illustrations of all kinds of sands. It meets several objectives:
(1) It serves to bring some systematic order in sand collections (I hope not just mine),
(2) It is a showcase to display the enormous textural and mineralogical diversity of natural sands,
(2) It is a playground for geology students exploring communicative ways of learning,
(3) It aims to construct a scientific database to investigate geological processes affecting sands and sandstones.
Feel free to navigate (left) or to browse ("Blättern") in the database, using the tollbar to the left.
